closet
/ˈklɑzɪt/ nom A2En français : placard
- A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet. · The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.· He's so far in the closet, he can see Narnia.
- One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.
Pluriel closets
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Morrel obeyed; the count arose, and unlocking a closet with a key suspended from his gold chain, took from it a little silver casket, beautifully carved and chased, the corners of which represented four bending figures, similar to the Caryatides, the forms of women, symbols of the angels aspiring to heaven.
She had even condescended to advise him to marry as soon as he could, provided he chose with discretion; and had once paid him a visit in his humble parsonage, where she had perfectly approved all the alterations he had been making, and had even vouchsafed to suggest some herself,--some shelves in the closets upstairs.
Then he ran to one of the cupboards in Valentine’s room, which had been transformed into a medicine closet, and taking from its silver case a small bottle of nitric acid, dropped a little of it into the liquor, which immediately changed to a blood-red color.
But I think I’ll carry that book into the sitting room and lock it in the jam closet and give you the key.
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